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The Daily Savannah · Edition Nº 62

TikTok removed 750,185 Kenyan videos between April and June, nearly all before anyone flagged them

The Daily Savannah · · 6 stories

TikTok took down 750,185 Kenyan videos in three months, almost all before anyone reported them, as Parliament weighs fines of up to 10% of global turnover; the Treasury and the CBK are still at odds over when banks must hold Sh10 billion in capital; Quickmart's founders were shut out of their own oversubscribed IPO; Yoco gets US$100 million to lend to the merchants it already processes payments for; MTN South Africa carries 28% more data for 1% more revenue; and seven in ten Kenyans are not on track for a comfortable retirement.

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TikTok removed 750,185 Kenyan videos between April and June, nearly all before anyone flagged them

TikTok's latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, released on Monday, says 99.8% of the videos it took down in Kenya in the second quarter were removed before any user reported them, and 93.8% within 24 hours of posting. The total is down from 884,591 in the first quarter. TikTok also deleted more than 46,000 Kenyan accounts it believed belonged to children under 13, cut off 80,640 live streams for breaking its rules, and removed nearly 11,000 videos under its policy on edited media and AI-generated content; it requires creators to label realistic AI material and has opened an in-app AI Literacy Hub in Kenya. Worldwide it removed 188.3 million of the 42.2 billion videos posted in the quarter, 0.4%, with automated systems responsible for 97.4% of removals, its highest share yet, and 6.3 million videos restored on appeal. The report lands as Kenya tightens the rules: proposed amendments to the Kenya Information and Communications Act would make TikTok, Meta and X register with the Communications Authority and report illegal activity such as sexual exploitation, cyberbullying and impersonation, and the draft Online Safety Bill 2026 proposes fines of up to Sh500 million or 10% of global turnover for platforms that fail their duty of care. Parliament rejected an outright TikTok ban earlier this year. For creators, the practical points are the AI label and the speed: most removals are automatic, so an appeal is the only route if your video is caught wrongly.

Sources: TechTrends

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BANKING

The Treasury and the CBK are still negotiating over when banks must hold Sh10 billion in capital

CS John Mbadi's June Budget proposed giving banks until December 2032, not 2029, to reach Sh10 billion in core capital and scrapping the yearly steps in between. No law was changed, so the CBK has told banks to stick to the existing timetable, starting with Sh5 billion by December 2026. Mbadi says he and Governor Kamau Thugge will "agree and communicate". The longer deadline was pushed by smaller lenders struggling to raise capital; until it is settled, the law as written applies.

TechTrends

MARKETS

Quickmart's founders bid Sh890 million for more of their own company and got no shares

Five founding shareholders applied for 118.6 million shares in the IPO, but because the offer was 22.5% oversubscribed, founder applications received no allocation. The supermarket chain lists on the Nairobi Securities Exchange on 12 November; before the IPO, private equity firm Adenia Partners held an effective 48.6% and chief executive Peter Kang'iri 5.4%.

TechTrends

FINTECH

Yoco gets a US$100 million credit line to lend to the shops that use its card machines

The South African payments company's facility from Victory Park Capital lets it fund merchant cash advances itself. Yoco Capital has advanced more than R6.5 billion to over 40,000 merchants since 2018; offers appear in the app based on live sales data, range from R2,000 to R1.5 million with no collateral, and are repaid from daily takings. It is the same bet behind Fuliza and Kenya's digital lenders: payments data as a credit score.

TechCabal

TELCOS

MTN South Africa carried 27.9% more data in nine months, but service revenue grew 1%

Data revenue rose 4.7%, postpaid users now average 32.8GB a month and prepaid users 5.2GB, but prepaid revenue fell 3% and the prepaid base shrank 6.9% to 27.4 million. Group CEO Ralph Mupita says growth is below target. More traffic does not automatically mean more money for an operator, a lesson for every African telco betting on data.

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CAREERS

Seven in ten Kenyans are not on track for a comfortable retirement, a Sanlam Allianz survey finds

In the insurer's 2026 Retirement Benchmark Report, a survey of 300 people, only 29% said they were on track, 44% expected a lower standard of living and 21% thought they were unlikely to manage. Incoming group CEO Jacqueline Karasha says more than 40% of Kenyans who had a pension scheme receive under KSh 20,000 in retirement. Keeping savings intact when changing jobs is one of the gaps she names.

TechTrends

750,185Kenyan TikTok videos removed in Q2, 99.8% before any report
Sh5bnminimum bank core capital due by December 2026, per the CBK
US$100mYoco's new credit line for merchant cash advances
7 in 10Kenyans surveyed not on track for a comfortable retirement

The Daily Savannah is The Tech Hut's automated daily digest of Kenya's tech ecosystem, researched and written by Claude every evening at 9:00 PM Nairobi time. Every story links to its original source; figures are as reported by the cited outlets.